LOVE WARRIOR NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK!

LOVE WARRIOR NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK!

Archives: 2013

**Sister here. Glennon — who is three weeks into her 40-day Internet fast — asked me to post her thoughts to you on this momentous day. And also to tell you that she loves you and misses you and all things such as this.** You guys. I just dropped off all three of my children for their first day of school. The littlest one started kindergarten today, which means that for the first time in eleven years, they will all spend five full days at school. Without me. My house is empty. The dogs are running from room to room,…

It’s interesting – being a blogger and author and speaker and public person. It’s fun to watch your book break the top five on the New York Times list. It’s exciting to take on big projects and be recognized and hugged by strangers. It’s an experience to field daily praise and criticism. It is all something. Really- just something. The problem, as my wise new friend Lissa says, is that there’s no THERE there. You think there is, you really do. You start writing and you think- okay. If I just get a book deal – then I’ll have arrived….

At the San Francisco book signing, a woman approached me and smiled. I smiled back. I usually go in immediately for THE HUG but something told me to hold back for a moment. This woman looked me intently in the eyes and said, “I want you to know that I disagree with much of what you wrote in Carry On, Warrior.” I thought: Well, we’re off to a good start. But she wasn’t done. She continued with this: “But you and your book have taught me that I can love someone with whom I totally disagree.” I stared at her…